- 1. Set goals. The evidence is clear.  People who actually clarify and write out their goals are infinitely more likely to achieve them than the people who don’t.  Make them clear and specific.  Energetically, there’s a big difference between, “Make more money this year,” and “earn at least $100,000 in 2010.” State your goals in a clear and measurable way, so that it is easy to tell whether or not you have achieved the goal.

2. Align your goals with your purpose. The clearer you are about your purpose, about what ignites your passion and is truly “on track,” for you in your life, the more energy you’ll naturally have as you pursue your goals, and the less likely you’ll be to get distracted or discouraged along the way.  Not clear on your purpose? Stay tuned for an upcoming article on Honing in on Your Purpose.

3. Decide to make your relationships even better! Make a list of your relationships with family, friends and co-workers and look at how you could improve them.  How would you rate each of your relationships on a scale from 1 to 10?  What could you do, or stop doing, to increase that rating?  Make a decision to raise the rating of each relationship, and create a plan!

4. Create time and space for yourself. Running on empty can be the fastest way to sabotage your goals. What refuels you?  Even if it’s just 10 minutes a day to sit still and do nothing – Make Time for Yourself!  Start small, maybe 5 minutes a day of movement (sun salutes are a simple and powerful yoga exercise that will really get your blood pumping and your body loosened up, even in only 5 minutes) and 5 minutes of sitting (meditation is great, but so is just plain old day dreaming).  After a week of 5 minutes of each, see if you can increase this to 10.  In a month or two, work your way up to 20 minutes a day of movement, and 20 minutes a day of sitting.  By the way, sitting in a tub of warm water doubles or even triples the relaxation benefit!

5. Create support structures for yourself and your goals. Have you noticed how hard it can be to keep promises to yourself?  Or to sustain a new routine in the face of all the old “pulls” on your time?  So much of what we do minute by minute, day by day, is shaped by the world around us – by our environments.  By creating structures of support –carpool with friends to the gym, have lunch and swap recipes with a friend who is also changing their eating habits, join a mastermind group to brainstorm and get support – all of these can make a vital difference in your success.  Or you can consider something simple like keeping the TV remote control in another room, in a locked drawer far away from the TV.

These are just a few ideas to help you change old habits, and create space in your life for more of what matters most to you, like working on that new business idea, or spending more quality time with friends and family.

It’s time – the turn of the year is a fabulous opportunity to deliberately create your life to be the way you want it to be.

For more on how to create 2010 to be YOUR year, the best one ever, check out www.coachdinyah.com. Coach Dinyah has been supporting individuals to turn their dreams into reality for more than 20 years. Isn’t it time for you?

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Daniel Holfeld  is a photographer practicing in fashion, beauty, advertising and art based photography. Photography is his first passion and after that comes yoga, which he has practised since he was 16.

A few months ago he started practicing Bikram yoga, a 90 minute cardiovascular work out of 26 postures done in a studio heated to 40.5°C.

For the first time the European Yoga Championships were being held in Dublin last month and Daniel decided to go forward and compete. He got placed and will continue on to represent Ireland in the Yoga World Cup on the 13th February in LA.

A: Daniel, why did you decide to take part in this competition in the first place?
D: At first I was quite shy about competing. I had never heard of a yoga competition before! But I slowly began to change my mind when I saw the other Irish competitors training and pushing themselves to reach their goals in time for the competition. So I signed up and joined the training. Also I thought, “why not!”. I have practiced since I was 16, so it was time to take on a challenge and see just how far I could go with it. Also I wanted to represent the guys, because I think people tend to think of yoga as a girls sport!

A: How do you fit training for a competition like this around your working life?
D: It wasn’t easy. In the run up to the competition I was practising every day after work in the evenings and then doing extra advanced classes on the weekends. So, on a Friday evening and Sunday I would be doing about 5 hours of yoga. It took up a lot of my time, but it was rewarding and great to see the results in my body, using different muscles and seeing a deeper practise just encouraged me to keep going no matter how much it ate into my free time. I think you’ll find the time to do anything you love and where you can see the results!

A: How do you discipline yourself to train when you’ve had a bad day, for example?
D: The hardest thing to do with any training is to start the session. So, if I’ve had a bad day I always say to myself “just start” and the rest will take care of itself. And it does, within the first 10 mins you are having a great session. Often the times when you feel the worst you end up have the best training. In order to keep up the regular discipline my body reminds me, because you feel so good with regular training and with anything good, you don’t want it to stop. Also, the group morale in the studio is great, we encourage each other a lot, which really helps.

A: What motivates you to keep going?
D: I’m motivated by setting new goals for myself. With yoga you can always learn new things about your body and how it reacts to more training. The results you get show just how malleable the body is and how much it can actually handle. For example, whenever I think I can’t go any further I always try, even if it means stretching a few more inches, then you see that you can do it, so the next time you try again. Also, I remind myself of how good I will feel after the
training, which is great motivation.

A: What inspires you?
D: This competition was a huge inspiration, setting myself this goal as something to work towards. The current two world champions came over and held classes and did demos. Seeing Courtney Mace move was definitely inspiring. In fact I will be going to NY to practise with her before the competition in LA. Never thought my holiday would consist of training but it’s really given me something to aim towards and the opportunity to train alongside a world champ is too good to miss!

A: What is the biggest challenge you have overcome, and how?
D: A few years ago I fell skiing, I went over some ice and my ski didn’t come off. Basically my ski went one way and my body went the other way! I tore my Anterior cruciate ligament. The challenge here was being disabled. At the time I was doing daily ashtanga practice so being bed bound when I got back was difficult for me. But I did the physio and lots of yoga and now its as though I’ve never had anything wrong with my knees. It hasn’t limited me in any way, largely because I stuck to a good physio routine and combined it with my yoga practice

Anna Aparicio is a IINLP Accredited Life & Success Coach, speaker and educator, based in Dublin, Ireland.

She uses the most up to date NLP, Hypnosis and live improvement strategies to create massive changes in people’s lives, fast.

Whether you want a more successful career, better relationships, or a healthier body, find out how Anna can help you when you get her Report “Why you’ll never get what you want unless you do this” at http://www.delite.ie

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Success is something that we all crave, I think at one time or the other and for some it means one thing for others it means something very different; so the question still remains;  Success, What is it?

It seems that some people are constantly seeking something more than what they have, when they seem to have it all.  They never get enough of anything; they always want more, not of the same, but something else, something different, something new. They are not happy unless they have what they think is the best job, at the top of their game, the biggest house, every thing bigger and better than everybody else not that they brag about it, but it is like an obsession, more vividly, a passion that is never satisfied.  Obviously, they have not found happiness or contentment with all of their gain or their ability to achieve prosperity and seem to have everything that anybody could possibly need or want.  I could wonder who they are really trying to please.  Could it be that it is actually not themselves, but someone else?  So I am thinking that these individuals are missing something far more important than Success and they don’t have a clue what it is, maybe or maybe not.  I really do not think it is Success they are reaching for; I think it something that goes far deeper. Success-When is it enough might be the question that needs an answer as well.

 Then there are those who are happy where they are, they actually do not think that much about Success or what it is but they do try to think about their future and the future of their family.  They are contented where they are, with what they are doing and their accomplishments. They work hard just like everybody else, they have made sacrifices also but they have a limit to what they will give up to gain more status and wealth and seem to know that having more money does not give them the keys to a happy life.  They seem to know that money does buy things, because they have things too, but things are not at the core of their victories.  They live their life full of cherished moments; they do not dwell on what money can buy, having a better job or becoming more Successful and definitely not famous.  They are just happy with who they are. They appear to be very Successful in their attainment because they have a nice home, drive an nice car, have a great job and their most valuable asset seems to be their family and their values.  They do not look at anybody else or their accomplishments, they are triumphant of their own in a modest way but they are also happy when someone they know acquires something Successful too.  These people seem to know the meaning of true self worth, true acquisition and they have obtained the ability to handle their gain. Success is a journey for everyone.

 Of course, I would not want to leave out these people….and they are those who are simply complacent going to work everyday and repeating it everyday for until retirement.  They do no think about Success- What is it…or Success period…they just live their life as it comes and accepts what it brings, one day at a time.Some have a power within that drives them, others are complacent where they are.

 You tell me what Success Really is.  As we read about Success, we learn that it is not about acquiring money or fame.  It just can’t be, because if it were….Tiger W. had it all, did he not?  It wasn’t enough…obviously it did not satisfy something…something that he probably doesn’t even know about.  He is certainly not grounded and he certainly did not have his values in place nor know what his priorities should have been.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.  Albert Einstein

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.  Abraham Lincoln

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.  Albert Schweitzer

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.  Anna Pavlova

There are no gains without pains.  Benjamin Franklin

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.  Demosthenes

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.  George Washington Carver

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 Life is too short to waste time wondering if you can do something; you don’t need anyone’s approval, but yours, do it, if you fail, do something else and in so doing you will find Success- What it really is!

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